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you're asking us to not do the thing and say that you want to help us do the thing that is popular. and you want us the democrats to go on the table and lay out the details of the thing that is really unpopular. are you crazy? >> your short answer is no, we will not get any significant entitlement reform? >> not now. i think what the democrats want to do is kind of box those tax hikes up and get them agreed to in principle. kind of break the republicans' back a little on that. then, okay, maybe we can have a discussion on entitlements. ok, there will be incredible resistance among democrats on the left to having that discussion at all. we'll have to see. >> nick, i feel like the president -- i know the president won based on campaigning for raising taxes on the rich. i know that a significant portion of america, 60%, said they agree with raising taxes on the rich. even some romney voters said hey, yeah, we should raise taxes on the rich. it seems there's a passionate fwrup of far right conservatives who are saying we don't want to raise taxes on the rich. and they seem to have an ou
you're asking us to not do the thing and say that you want to help us do the thing that is popular. and you want us the democrats to go on the table and lay out the details of the thing that is really unpopular. are you crazy? >> your short answer is no, we will not get any significant entitlement reform? >> not now. i think what the democrats want to do is kind of box those tax hikes up and get them agreed to in principle. kind of break the republicans' back a little on that. then,...
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tell us why? >> i came back from a 9,500-mile tour and met with thousands of vote voters around the country. 97% believe it should be the top priority. only 8% have confidence in the current line-up getting the job done. i endorsed him not because of his plan, because neither candidate has a plan that i think is details enough for the american people, but because his proven leadership ability and track record of transforming organizations and working on a bipartisan basis and i think it's critically important that we have inspired leadership today. this country faces key challenges that are getting worse with the passage of time, and we're not making progress. >> i'm having a little time understanding this, because the debt is such an important issue to you. if you look at the framework for what mitt romney is proposing, it's something we've seen before. there's a 20% across the board tax cut and use talking about ends the alternative minimum tax and tacking on $2 trillion more in defense spending
tell us why? >> i came back from a 9,500-mile tour and met with thousands of vote voters around the country. 97% believe it should be the top priority. only 8% have confidence in the current line-up getting the job done. i endorsed him not because of his plan, because neither candidate has a plan that i think is details enough for the american people, but because his proven leadership ability and track record of transforming organizations and working on a bipartisan basis and i think it's...
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thanks, also, to congressman frank wolf for introducing us here and welcoming us here. and thank you for that welcome. i'm overwhelmed. that's really something special. thank you. i'm looking around to see if we have the beatles here or something, but it looks like you came just for the campaign. i appreciate it. your voices and your energy and your passion is being heard all over the nation. and we -- ann and i hear them in our hearts as well. thank you for being here and for showing us that kind of welcome. thank you for the work that so many of you have been doing, going across the neighborhood, knocking on doors, making phone calls for us at victory centers, putting up signs in your yard and in your neighbors' yards. >> all right. joining us at the table now is former massachusetts governor bill weld. he endorsed barack obama in 2008 but this time around he throws his support behind mitt romney. thanks for stopping by. the story from the last few days from the romney campaign's angle has been record crowds for romney at the rallies and lots of enthusiasm. republican
thanks, also, to congressman frank wolf for introducing us here and welcoming us here. and thank you for that welcome. i'm overwhelmed. that's really something special. thank you. i'm looking around to see if we have the beatles here or something, but it looks like you came just for the campaign. i appreciate it. your voices and your energy and your passion is being heard all over the nation. and we -- ann and i hear them in our hearts as well. thank you for being here and for showing us that...
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the difference between us he made promises he couldn't keep. i am making promises i have kept and i will keep them for the american people. >> duking it out in dubuque. at mitt romney in dubuque, iowa where the president will campaign tonight. here at the cycle we've been examining the most important states for this year's presidential election. today we take a hard look at the state that starts the race and might end it, iowa. it's known foreclose elections, carries six electoral votes and of all the swing states it has the best economy by far. according to real clear politics poll average president obama is currently leading by two points. with political ads running across the state 24/7 how will iowa shake out on tuesday? guys i think iowa is a weird state. we can all agree. >> no, no. i have friends in iowa. >> i liken to it the new hampshire of the midwest. there's a real strong independent streak there and it's hard to pin down their political leanings. i know you'll get into that in a little bit. but i just wanted to bring up a blog post
the difference between us he made promises he couldn't keep. i am making promises i have kept and i will keep them for the american people. >> duking it out in dubuque. at mitt romney in dubuque, iowa where the president will campaign tonight. here at the cycle we've been examining the most important states for this year's presidential election. today we take a hard look at the state that starts the race and might end it, iowa. it's known foreclose elections, carries six electoral votes...
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so at this point it doesn't really faze us. it's just sort of like throw another one on the pile. >> my favorite one in this book was about james polk, one of our former presidents. it creates randomly this story about how nobody believed james polk had been elected president. secret service would routinely escort him out of the white house. will, do you have a favorite entry from this book, one that really stands out? >> well, i don't know if i have a favorite. there's one that's very succinct and i feel is very good advice for anyone who is trying to make their way through life. it's kitchen comma, if another rom contains more knives than this room, get out of that house. i think it's good advice. >> great rule for life. >> excellent advice. will tracy, thank you for not kiting our mikes. >> thank you for having me here. >>> up next, krystal has friendly words of advice for our friends in the gop which includes an elephant with a sombrero. sounds awesome. >> ole. [ female announcer ] the humana walmart-preferred rx plan p-d-p
so at this point it doesn't really faze us. it's just sort of like throw another one on the pile. >> my favorite one in this book was about james polk, one of our former presidents. it creates randomly this story about how nobody believed james polk had been elected president. secret service would routinely escort him out of the white house. will, do you have a favorite entry from this book, one that really stands out? >> well, i don't know if i have a favorite. there's one that's...
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she's back for us in toms river. michelle is the only reporter to make it into the neighboring community of seaside heights. so tell us, michelle, what you saw there. >> reporter: well, we were there yesterday and also early this morning. and the devastation there is just sort of unbelievable. it plays tricks your eyes when you look at the boardwalk, the place you're used to seeing people walking and running. then you look back further and you see that iconic roller coaster, and it's just plopped in the water. that's because sandy, all her wrath, came in and just wiped out that boardwalk from beneath it. and that's just one section, that iconic amusement park, that landmark that people relate to that is damaged. then you've got all the surrounding homes, the beaches, the beachside communities that are linked in that area. and some are hit harder than the others. and that water came all the way right where i'm standing and further inland. and they're just now getting that water that's been receded in that area. and wh
she's back for us in toms river. michelle is the only reporter to make it into the neighboring community of seaside heights. so tell us, michelle, what you saw there. >> reporter: well, we were there yesterday and also early this morning. and the devastation there is just sort of unbelievable. it plays tricks your eyes when you look at the boardwalk, the place you're used to seeing people walking and running. then you look back further and you see that iconic roller coaster, and it's just...
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pete williams joins us on the phone from inside the court. pete, what can you tell us? >> reporter: we're getting the order right now. i'll ask the court official if she can hand me an extra copy. but here it is. just this second here. and, well, we've been waiting all afternoon to see if the supreme court would take any of the gay marriage cases and we've just gotten aporders list here. and none of tgay marriage cases are on here. so it appears we won't hear today. i can't imagine that they would give us two orders list. i think this is it. so now the question is what does that mean. and it could mean one of several things. it could mean that the court wants more time to talk with these cases and will order them to be relisted and brought up again at another closed door conference. it could mean that they're not going to take the cases. on a day like today which is not a normal day for getting orders from the court, the only they think we would hear about is cases that they're going to take. so if there are cases they're not going to take, the first chance to hear abou
pete williams joins us on the phone from inside the court. pete, what can you tell us? >> reporter: we're getting the order right now. i'll ask the court official if she can hand me an extra copy. but here it is. just this second here. and, well, we've been waiting all afternoon to see if the supreme court would take any of the gay marriage cases and we've just gotten aporders list here. and none of tgay marriage cases are on here. so it appears we won't hear today. i can't imagine that...
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facing debt is nothing new for us. in fact, it's helped shape our country and accomplish incredible things like the expansion westward and the louisiana purchase, florida, texas and california. those cost money, you know. our next guest argues that, yes, we are a country of dreamers and also a country of defalters. in the guest spot, scott nelson, an author of "a nation of deadbeats." i guess my first question would be, you have basically outlined in the book a pattern you say you can see repeetding throughout american history, 19th century, the wall street meltdown. can you tell us what that pattern is and why we keep repeating it? >> yeah. the pattern goes back, in fact, early 1793. it's the beginning of the first bank of the united states. we have -- europeans lending to the u.s. really since the nation began. and lending to the country itself, but also, a lot of private lending and a lot of private lending is -- turns out to be not very good at paying it back and so the failure to pay back led to the 1819 panic. sa
facing debt is nothing new for us. in fact, it's helped shape our country and accomplish incredible things like the expansion westward and the louisiana purchase, florida, texas and california. those cost money, you know. our next guest argues that, yes, we are a country of dreamers and also a country of defalters. in the guest spot, scott nelson, an author of "a nation of deadbeats." i guess my first question would be, you have basically outlined in the book a pattern you say you can...
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to use what you search for and to use what's in the terms in your e-mails. if there's something with google plus, they can kind of create an idea that that is what your personality is. i think that the personality of people online, they assume there's a cloak there so people let parts of themselves sort of show online that they otherwise would. i think there's a story in the times last week about -- >> like what, steve? be specific. >> there's a couple ways to read that statement like anthony weiner would say. google auto complete. start asking a question about something. you find out what people -- you and about john boehner, you don't ask about the fiscal cliff or the tax plan. they ask if john boehner is gay. is joe biden, stupid, retards, gay, jewish, smart? these are the smart. these are the things that pop up. >> gay is like always. >> gay is up there. mormon is up there a lot. bill belichick, the patriots coach, is bill bielichick gay, mormon, a cheater. >> sideline cheater. >> it's interesting that this profile, i think people don't maybe appreciate
to use what you search for and to use what's in the terms in your e-mails. if there's something with google plus, they can kind of create an idea that that is what your personality is. i think that the personality of people online, they assume there's a cloak there so people let parts of themselves sort of show online that they otherwise would. i think there's a story in the times last week about -- >> like what, steve? be specific. >> there's a couple ways to read that statement...
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with us from ames iowa is luke lowdown on the incoming 11ress. luke thanks so we put all the effort into the election and tomorrow it's about the a quickci turn around. >> i'm to that fiare presidential race. how much of an i does the race actually have down ballot house in a wave year ofbe this isn't very much of a wave year. this is fighting trench warre the bare minimum they need in the f democrats need on paper 25 seats to get when you account for redistricting and retirement. democrats are not competing wher seats needed to go to the majority. what am iabout? blue dog democrats who are religion. those madesi in 2008.ttyime around. their dwindling and those are the folks that democrats would to win to they don't look too well right now, and they probably bewave. >> digging the tie.mu the future ofbjectd the house republicans said their goal was to make one term presideno do they continue obct >> reporter: the main question has to do with the bush tax cuts for those making 250 or above. i know you just spoke ud an n e-mailaker forwarding a the
with us from ames iowa is luke lowdown on the incoming 11ress. luke thanks so we put all the effort into the election and tomorrow it's about the a quickci turn around. >> i'm to that fiare presidential race. how much of an i does the race actually have down ballot house in a wave year ofbe this isn't very much of a wave year. this is fighting trench warre the bare minimum they need in the f democrats need on paper 25 seats to get when you account for redistricting and retirement....